Posted on 06/29/2020 7:47:02 PM PDT by dynachrome
On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.
I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30.
But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.
Here are some facts few people know:
Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”
The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world”
Climate change is not making natural disasters worse
Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003
The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska
The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California
Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s
Netherlands became rich not poor while adapting to life below sea level
We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter
Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change
Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels
Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture
(Excerpt) Read more at environmentalprogress.org ...
Nice book plug.
It turns out most “experts” are actually whores—in it for the grant or other funding.
“Big science” is to science what Bigfoot is to apes. ;-)
Thanks for posting. Good article. Getting the book.
Passing the article on to depressed lib friends
On a related note, my uncle’s bill lived in Fairbanks for a couple of years doing construction work on the Alaska Pipeline. The tree huggers were sh*tying bricks over the “imminent threat” of rendering the caribou and moose extinct. Since the pipeline’s been operational the moose and caribou population actually INCREASED thanks to the heat the pipeline generates. The warmth gets them “in the mood”, whooda thunkit?
He was also a supporter of the Sandanista Regime in Nicaragua.
You don’t get much more Leftist than that.
Carbon? Both misleading and who cares?
Impressive. I hope he survives. It is risky to be an apostate.
It's always been changing.
Always has....always will.
And it's got nothing to do with humans....let alone our activity.
This palnets' climate is not static. Never has been, never will be so long as it's part of this ever changing universe.
When you put it like that, it gives me hope for the world. :-)
Yep. One wonders if he feels the “need” to apologize for that. Somehow, I doubt it.
Perhaps one day he will recognize the error of his economic beliefs and apologize for advocating socialism
And shellfish used to climb mountains.
Absolutely.
Of all the things hated by Leftists, Apostates to that religion have a special circle of Hell reserved for them.
Kind of reminds me of another religion, now that I think of it.
Long article, but good so far. I have only skimmed it, but it sounds like this guy has begun to understand that his previous alarmism was only making things worse.
There is always hope...but as I once heard a Soviet say...
“Hope dies last.”
Thanks rlmorel. The global warming hoax is 100 percent political in origin and is part of a political agenda.
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Thanks GOPJ. I had a lot of pings!
Statistics show the lie for what it is. I heard it said (have not checked out the veracity) that a black male is 13.5 times more likely to be killed by another black male than by a police officer.
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